Fisherman’s Wife
1920
Dark, heavy colors. A woman is depicted there. A fisherman's wife from Ostend, a coastal city in Belgium. Her figure is painted in earthy, subdued colors.
The painter is Constant Permeke. His life was profoundly torn apart by war. An injury in World War I, followed by evacuation to England. Away from his homeland in England, he might have sought light amidst harsh circumstances, painting with bright colors.
However, in 1919, Permeke finally returned to Ostend. What awaited him there was not a beautiful landscape, but the harsh reality of the laborers. The heavy and arduous lives of people living with the sea were present.
He could no longer paint with bright colors.
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